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"You don't want to make all the health stuff too obvious. Because if it feels like they're checking in for a flight, they aren't going to come. But you have to let them know somehow. So it's…
By its nature, Roman civilisation seemed to unlock the pestilential potential of the landscape. The expansion of agriculture brought civilisation deeper into habitats friendly with the mosqu…
The word "scientist" first appeared in March 1834, while Darwin was surveying the Falkland Islands on overland expeditions from the HMS Beagle, being no scientist but an explorer, adventurer…
At some point, from around 40,000 years ago in Europe, we see evidence of these behaviourally modern humans in a sudden flourishing of cultural artifacts in the archaeological record. So wha…
Bemused locals were left to digest the fact that the pleasant newcomer to their island paradise, who had been helping out at the local animal shelter, was in fact a fugitive art dealer who s…
For the first time in its 36-year history, we at American Theatre have made the difficult decision to forgo printing and mailing hard-copy issues of the magazine for the next six months, or …
On stage, he enjoyed a dazzling early period and triumphant later years, most especially in Shakespeare and Pinter; but, if there was a prolonged period when Holm was absent from the theatre…
Over the centuries nationalism has swung back and forth as a progressive and retrograde force, depending on historical conditions. In revolutionary France the "nation" started as a wrecking …
The confluence of these explosive books, in the months leading up to the 2020 election, has made Simon & Schuster the current front-runner in an ongoing race among publishers to produce …
Rather than stuffing children full of moral precepts and academic knowledge, the aim was to work with the grain of the pupil's innate capacities and desires. Rousseau was one of the first pr…
The theater chain's CEO, Adam Aron, had previously said that the company's plan to reopen locations would not require patrons to wear masks as they "did not want to be drawn into political c…
It is understandable to wonder what the additional risks are for wind musicians, above the nonzero background risk of COVID-19 spread. How might we mitigate these risks for ourselves, our co…
Choral music has unique diversity issues that are more subtle than those in the instrumental world. Because of my work as a publisher and composer, I am particularly interested in the repres…
"There is every obstacle to creating art, and yet art is being created and art is being shared. It's being done by both professionals and amateurs, by people in their homes in ways that you …
They corrected authors' copy as well as proofs. They identified and mended typographical and other errors, to the best of their ability. They divided texts into sections and drew up aids to …
Asking where this is all going to end is a very effective means of whipping up panic. But slippery slope arguments are themselves slippery and need to be treated with caution. They force us …
"Basically," he says, "we needed to create something like ESPN or The Food Network." You mean, I ask, you talk to chefs about the politics of food, but you don't do the cooking? "Exactly, th…
"With most of the room cut out, there are fewer distractions. When three dimensions collapse into two, there's a weird intimacy. You can get up close, like ballroom dance partners. You can d…
Jill Robinson, CEO of TRG Arts, said that in North America there is an active "engine of income" from new subscription purchases and philanthropy that has limited some of the financial impac…
Weekly library e-book lending across the country has increased by nearly 50 percent since March 9, according to data from OverDrive, a service used by many libraries to let patrons check out…
It might seem an extraordinary thing that a late 19th/early 20th century French composer " and one whose music has had a history of having been dismissed for its seeming simplicity, seeming …
Culture secretary Fiona Hyslop has announced a £1 million interest free loan and £149,000 in funding from a "resilience" fund for the Fringe Society, which runs the official website, b…
"We have an extraordinary opportunity to still mount a show in a way that we fully expected to, not only without compromise, but actually potentially even with enhancements. We're able to do…
It is a neurological event where excitation of one of the five senses arouses a simultaneous reaction in another sense or senses (the Greek roots for "synesthesia," also spelled "synaesthesi…
This is part of the traditional dance of the Mari, the region's indigenous nation. Its sudden intrusion into an otherwise classical production is no coincidence. It is part of an experiment …
